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[Q] Confused about Honeycomb ROMs

I understand that different ROMs can be in varying degrees of completion and bug fixes. Ive been flashing ROMs since my HTC Fuze on WinMo 6.1 so I get that there can be things that look great but don't work. But I'm looking at all these nook color Honeycomb videos on YouTube and they seem to work fine. I have VEEEERY basic tablet needs. Browser, email, pdf reading, nook and kindle reading and a few news related apps. So, am I missing something? Are they really all that buggy?
Thanks, if anyone can explain this for me.

All honeycomb roms are buggy as they are pretty much creating them blind. As Google will not release the source code. It's amazing at how far they've gotten without it but it is still not anywhere near CM7. If your going to use a rom make sure it's CM7.
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Am I reading things wrong or does it seem that there are as bunch of different CM7 ROMs? I don't mean nightlies, I mean different actual ROMs?
What would be the latest ACTUAL official release that is the most problem free?
So all the Honeycombs are gonna be buggy? Even just for the stuff I use? (browser, kindle, nook, news apps, pdf, etc?)

tinpanalley said:
Am I reading things wrong or does it seem that there are as bunch of different CM7 ROMs? I don't mean nightlies, I mean different actual ROMs?
What would be the latest ACTUAL official release that is the most problem free?
So all the Honeycombs are gonna be buggy? Even just for the stuff I use? (browser, kindle, nook, news apps, pdf, etc?)
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There are a few CM7 based roms but they are out of date and mostly abandoned. The most problem free release would be the 7.1 RC.
Yes, unfortunately it is the sad truth but honeycomb is kind of overkill for a 7 inch screen. So I don't feel too bad about it.
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Ok, cool. Well, not cool, but what can you do. I'll try 7.1 I though 7.0.3 was the latest stable version??
Anyway, you've been really helpful with this thread. Would you mind taking a look at this other one I posed to see if you can help me out?? I'd appreciate it. THanks.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1192704

tinpanalley said:
Ok, cool. Well, not cool, but what can you do. I'll try 7.1 I though 7.0.3 was the latest stable version??
Anyway, you've been really helpful with this thread. Would you mind taking a look at this other one I posed to see if you can help me out?? I'd appreciate it. THanks.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1192704
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7.1 is a release candidate that means it is ready for day to day use but might have a couple of bugs but it includes improvements such as deep sleep that really save your battery by a ton but whatever release you want to pick is up to you. You could try them both for a couple days each and see what one you like better.
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tinpanalley said:
Am I reading things wrong or does it seem that there are as bunch of different CM7 ROMs? I don't mean nightlies, I mean different actual ROMs?
What would be the latest ACTUAL official release that is the most problem free?
So all the Honeycombs are gonna be buggy? Even just for the stuff I use? (browser, kindle, nook, news apps, pdf, etc?)
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Nah, there's really only the CM7. Phiremod is nothing more than a themed CM7. Nobody's really released any groundbreaking actual ROM for NC. Which is fine, really - because CM7 is damned good for the NC, and it's plenty customizable and themeable (start poking around UOT Kitchen).
What there *are*, though, are different bootloaders and ROMs for the SD install or the EMMC (NC memory, overwrites the original BN software), and how they're loaded. Frankly, I just went with verygreen's SD-size-agnostic loader, picked a CM7 nightly, and haven't looked back.

[Q] What is your fav rom

What is your favorite rom a500/501 users? Pros, Cons, features you have, features you dont have. Just wondering what everyone else is using.
edit: If i left any out on the poll let me know

ajdrausal said:
What is your favorite rom a500/501 users? Pros, Cons, features you have, features you dont have. Just wondering what everyone else is using.
edit: If i left any out on the poll let me know
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Golly gee there haven't been enough of these threads lately.
Since you didn't have the best ROM on your poll, I had to come in here and type it out.
The Root Tooty Fresh and Fruity ROM of course!

what about the virtuous roms like virtuous galaxy or picasso, but they havent been updated in forever

Thor, but that's not on the list.

I personally liked THOR, but there were a few things left out since its not Acer stock ROM (such as hardware screen rotation lock).
I'm using lightspeed now and I would have to say I like it the most because it removed every bit of bloat the stock Acer had.

sKgbn5TN
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Thor, but that's not on the list.
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+1

NoUseToRush said:
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+2 for Thor. I have been running it for over a month now and it is quite fast and stable.

Virtuous XooM anyone? smoothest 3.2 rom ive seen so far.

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Virtuous XooM anyone? smoothest 3.2 rom ive seen so far.
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I agree. I have I'm still on it even though it has no updates. It runs great and fixed all the issues I had with the tablet.

Thor V12.
Btw. I don't spend much time over here so this may be a dopey question but... why doesn't Thor post on xda?
Wait let me guess...
Mods pissed him off
Trolls pissed him off
Or he's a premaddona?
Sent from my cm7 powered Evo 3D!

Thor +1
no more random reboot ever

chefdave12118 said:
Thor V12.
Btw. I don't spend much time over here so this may be a dopey question but... why doesn't Thor post on xda?
Wait let me guess...
Mods pissed him off
Trolls pissed him off
Or he's a premaddona?
Sent from my cm7 powered Evo 3D!
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Add the first two to the fact that XDA won't let him post his work here because he won't publish his source code (like Google didn't post theirs for 3.2), and you have the master recipe.

Thor V12 is seriously an awesome rom, loving everything about it.

SoHaunted said:
Thor V12 is seriously an awesome rom, loving everything about it.
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All the Thor comments seem to be positive, so I installed it, and it is pretty awesome!
Link for Thor

Rooted and installed my first rom yesterday. It was thor's. If i hadn't killed my battery in the process of installing/re-installing/re-re-installing (had issues w/ wifi and sd storage), i wouldn't have gotten any actual work done while on night shift. From what I did get to play around with, it was much snappier than stock, and allowed me to tether to my phone's data via bluetooth without any 3rd party apps. So not only did I become an instant fan of thor's, but I also might actually start watching Breaking Bad (streamed the first ep on netflix). lol

What is your favorite ROM for the Kindle Fire?

And why?
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For now... stock!

Come on people! Help me choose a ROM

Cyanogenmod 7... I love ICS though.

maw230 said:
Come on people! Help me choose a ROM
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It really depends what you want, doesn't it?
If you want something stable where everything works, you're not going to flash ICS on it, are you? Me, I wanted to play around with something that I knew was still in the alpha/beta stages of development, so I took the plunge. I find that the 02_09_Hashcode build on http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1411895 does all that I need it to at the moment, so I'm happy with it. If you follow that thread, though, you will find people that don't like it, people that want HW video acceleration, people that won't run it until it runs netflix... etc. It all depends on your desires/needs.
Sure, I'd like to be able to have the original reader on it - the margins on the reader app are so big a single sentence spans multiple pages. But if that was too much of a bother, I'd go back to stock wouldn't I?

CM7 Whistlestop build(SoS)
CM7 SoS. Solid as a rock. HW accel works, hd video, and ad hoc wifi works. Good sh*t. With ICS theme, ADW EX, and the removal of a few unnecessary APKs, it's BY FAR the best out right now.

i use stock just because i kinda like the Carousel launcher. until they port it to ics i'm sticking with stock. i don't want to use the kindle android app. lol

CodenameDeadpool said:
CM7 SoS. Solid as a rock. HW accel works, hd video, and ad hoc wifi works. Good sh*t. With ICS theme, ADW EX, and the removal of a few unnecessary APKs, it's BY FAR the best out right now.
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That's what I'm looking for! I think I will give this one a go later. What's the best way to flash TWRP to a rooted kindle? I can't seem to get into FireFireFire although it was supposedly installed properly with BurritoRoot3...

CodenameDeadpool said:
CM7 SoS. Solid as a rock. HW accel works, hd video, and ad hoc wifi works. Good sh*t. With ICS theme, ADW EX, and the removal of a few unnecessary APKs, it's BY FAR the best out right now.
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Hi, what version of Android does this ROM show up as? There are some apps that I want to run that require 3.0+.

Born2g0lf said:
Hi, what version of Android does this ROM show up as? There are some apps that I want to run that require 3.0+.
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2.3.7
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maw230 said:
That's what I'm looking for! I think I will give this one a go later. What's the best way to flash TWRP to a rooted kindle? I can't seem to get into FireFireFire although it was supposedly installed properly with BurritoRoot3...
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KindleFireUtility is pretty easy to deal with if you're not comfortable running adb shell commands. It will install the most recent version of BurritoRoot and TWRP and does many other things as well. Just be sure to read the instructions in the thread well or you may end up posting one of the many "bricked my KF while trying to install TWRP with KFU" threads you'll see around here

maw230 said:
That's what I'm looking for! I think I will give this one a go later. What's the best way to flash TWRP to a rooted kindle? I can't seem to get into FireFireFire although it was supposedly installed properly with BurritoRoot3...
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The best way is to use KIndle Fire Utility, which can be found here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1399889#

I am confused
I don't know which one is better,i am a newbie to the android things.
Is there any pictures or a complete comparison between these os?

Raid6 said:
I don't know which one is better,i am a newbie to the android things.
Is there any pictures or a complete comparison between these os?
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It depends on what do you expecting from your ROM.
CM9 builds are more polished and tablet looking than other, but don't have video HW acceleration support and netfix.
CM7 builds are bit more laggy (if we are talking about UI animations) but you can play videos from webpages.
Barebones are looking similiar to ICS UI, and is very fast but you have to install everything on it (it's just naked system).
I didn't using MIUI/Kand ROMS so cant tell anything about them

Cm7 sos I got flash to work =p
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CM7 SoS is what I keep coming back to. I've tried a little bit of everything. As a side note, I love the KF subforum, bunch of great people.

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Got to have my Netflix account up and working. CM7 SoS is just great. Still, I can't wait for CM9 to get video working. I understand they're almost there.

For me, the MoDaCo rom is the perfect fit. You get the "stock" experience- probably the best app compatibility you're going to find. In addition, you have several tweaks and the Market preinstalled.
Having been around the block a few times on other tablets and Android phones, I love the bleeding edge ROMs. But if a device is your daily driver, stability and compatibility are important. The MoDaCo rom gives that.
Now, give ICS a few more months, and it may be a different story.

Everything everyone said about the ROMs here is correct and good advice.
I'd just add if I was starting out with CM7, I'd try the barebones version. That wasn't yet out when I installed it and I had to uninstall all the unneeded apps manually. If I were to start now, I'd use barebones, for sure.
Otherwise they are the same.
CM7 is very good. You will like it, I bet.

furtom said:
Everything everyone said about the ROMs here is correct and good advice.
I'd just add if I was starting out with CM7, I'd try the barebones version. That wasn't yet out when I installed it and I had to uninstall all the unneeded apps manually. If I were to start now, I'd use barebones, for sure.
Otherwise they are the same.
CM7 is very good. You will like it, I bet.
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Similar experience here. I was on CM7 sos, then tried ICS. In the interim, Barebones came out, so I rolled with that.
I prefer what I'm used to with Android, so CM7 is a good fit for me.
Someone did mention that the UI was slightly laggy, but I've had a better experience with CM7 using Raven's kernal than I did with ICS with whatever kernel came with it.

[Q] ICS - Which rom is the most stable?

Hello everyone,
I already have tried the following roms:
- Taboonay
- Flexreaper
- Lightspeed
- Icylicious
All them are considered stable releases but I got some bugs, all roms got particularities like: Can't install all apps, running slow, battery drain, slow fps, etc.
Maybe I've installed a wrong Kernel for these roms?
Which one do yours recommend to me? I'm looking for a stable rom and not many features.
Actually I've reverted to 3.2.1 using Thor Rom v14.2 and I was glad but this release is a kinda old and I still looking for updates, like chrome browser and some ICS new features.
I appreciate your help.
Thanks anyway

Use flex reaper 10 it has a modded or tweaked kernel but the others to my knowledge use pretty much stock kernel. I find flexreaperthe best as of now till acer has released ics for reals. I don't get bad fps except buttons on shadowgun and I'm an android gamer.
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Give thors v96 ics a try. Other than the camera not working. It is very stable. V126 is a little rocky. I am waiting for the next update to give it another shot. I am running v96 again until then.

I'm using Flexreaper R10 by Civato and this rom is wonderful! Obviously, like every leaked version, has some bugs, but not too much and it's stable enough.
With tweaked kernel in R10 release the quadrant score is about 2700, not bad for a leaked..
Everything is working good, also the camera,it's not up to the best working but it's good enough
For more info take a look to civato's thread
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I really like Lighspeed 4.3 + civato's tweaked kernel.... lag free combo.

As you can see what I am using, I like the Acer ring with mods with Acer print and lock screen, just watch out for Beta's. Use one that is one or two versions old, good luck
Acer Iconia A500 Rooted Running Flexreaper R7 ICS 4.0.3

currently under Thor 133, everything is fine.
i wanna give a try to flexreaper last one too, seems quite good

icy ics the best so far, very stable... tested for month no problem so far

Curently on flexreaper very stable , tried icylicious had some quirks but nothing worth mentioning

ef1x said:
Curently on flexreaper very stable , tried icylicious had some quirks but nothing worth mentioning
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Please do. I can't fix what I don't know about, and since there are so few posts about "supposed" problems with it as opposed to the other lengthy threads with mostly complaints about stability, I'd like to hear all about them

humm best rom i do not know for sure.. Only trouble i have with any of them is THAT I CANT RUN Them all at the same time.. Maybe i need a few more tablets..
But i do think its in bad taste to start a thread asking What is better . READ THE FORUM THREAD of each rom try a few and decide for yourself . Dont make it sound like a competition. all the DEV/ Cooks work together in this Forum. the uses should do the same..
Hi all... by the way Just been spending lots of time with the kid the last few weeks. HE Left today off to College. WHOOWEEE no kids on the house. Med school will last many years as well.

I was currently using last Flexreaper version but some apps stop working randomly. Someone got something like this before?
erica_renee said:
humm best rom i do not know for sure.. Only trouble i have with any of them is THAT I CANT RUN Them all at the same time.. Maybe i need a few more tablets..
But i do think its in bad taste to start a thread asking What is better . READ THE FORUM THREAD of each rom try a few and decide for yourself . Dont make it sound like a competition. all the DEV/ Cooks work together in this Forum. the uses should do the same..
Hi all... by the way Just been spending lots of time with the kid the last few weeks. HE Left today off to College. WHOOWEEE no kids on the house. Med school will last many years as well.
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Dear erica_renee,
I'm not trying to make it sounds like a competition.
I've just asked which one is the most STABLE rom and not the Best.
As you can see, I'm not looking for features. I already have given a chance for some roms but they got some bugs .
I've made a simple question , so if you dont have any information to share here, dont post nonsense things and stop flame on my topic.

marcusvideira said:
I was currently using last Flexreaper version but some apps stop working randomly. Someone got something like this before?
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If you post something like this you need to give info on what apps and if you followed installation instructions TO THE LETTER.
I only got one app that closed not FC once a week and that is Asus Taskmanager , it doesn't crash just stops and restarts.

Just for information: From time to time, I had with FlexReaper some FCs with GPS apps, like Google Maps. Then I found out that the FCs were related to SetCPU, which I still had on my tab, although it was without function. After deinstalling SetCPU I never observed any FCs.
Best regards, maris

Most of the time if you are experiencing stability issues with these ICS ROMs is because of something else, whether it is an app that hasn't been optimized for ICS, or old junk from previous apps. Other causes could be a bad flash or some steps being left out when wiping a previous ROM. For the most part, if everything is done right, all the ROMS that these great chefs have cooked up are really solid. I never have issues with mine.

civato said:
If you post something like this you need to give info on what apps and if you followed installation instructions TO THE LETTER.
I only got one app that closed not FC once a week and that is Asus Taskmanager , it doesn't crash just stops and restarts.
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I'll have to agree so far I haven't had any constant problems with civato's roms. As of now their the best out there. From what I've experienced unless its in alpha or beta stages, something you did or didn't do causes your problems. even if its just an app you use or how you restore data.
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FLEX
i recently installed FLEX REAPER for iconia a100, it runs incredibly fast and stable but i also notice my battery is draining like hell... and with ICS stock not...
i have wifi on and Hd widgets set to up date every hour and nothing else...
i turned the tablet at 7 am with 100% and now is 75% !!! with stock rom the tablet was at 90%...
even with that i like the rom...

Do you guys want an updated ICS build, what kind?

Exactly what the thread title says...
As most of you should already be aware I have a gingerbread build that I try to provide something close to a monthly update on (plus or minus a few days). What I would like to know tonight is if y'all would like something similar with ICS?
Just like the gingerbread builds this won't have a lot of progression and I won't be trying to really create anything so much as compile y'all something (hopefully stable) to use if you so choose.
Assuming the answer to the first question is yes, do y'all have a preference for the build (cm9, aokp, etc)?

A release candidate of CM9 would be nice or if there's an ICS rom of ParanoidAndroid, then that would be great as well, I like having proper tablet UI for apps.
Has hash already updated his CM9 kernel?

ice cold sandwich by Lord Clocken From the HTC dhd trend is an aokp ice cold sandwich ,it has great features like kill all back button.
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Every enhancement
the sg7 enhancement, linaro, supercharge, oc'ed kernal
and nothing else.
Base it on the least flashy ROM. I want to change, and add in things as I see fit, and I want the most basic version of android to do it from. I want it the fastest it can go, so all the enhancements and nothing else added in.

You can port sense rom to our Kindle???

All of the roms I have tried have these really annoying bugs. In the ROM I have now, the WIFI keeps dropping, even when i'm in the middle of a download.
If you guys can make a simple, stable ROM without all the bells and whistles (swipe left, themes, etc), that would make me (and a lot of other people) very happy.

Trafford Devil said:
Has hash already updated his CM9 kernel?
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With a little bit of tweaks I'm pretty sure we can use the newer JB kernel (they're both 3.y based but the newer one has the working charge indicator and screen driver.
P8ntBal1551 said:
Every enhancement
the sg7 enhancement, linaro, supercharge, oc'ed kernal
and nothing else.
Base it on the least flashy ROM. I want to change, and add in things as I see fit, and I want the most basic version of android to do it from. I want it the fastest it can go, so all the enhancements and nothing else added in.
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This is sort of where I was already leaning; was considering basing something off of the loosethiskin builds that TWA was providing before cm10 but I wanted some opinions first as just like my cm7 rom I won't be the one running it (I'm using cm10 and it's going to remain that way)
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You can port sense rom to our Kindle???
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No; others may be capable and or willing to do this. I personally don't touch binary ports; partly cause I don't want to and partly cause I don't know how to do binary ports (I haven't researched it do to the fact that I just didn't want to do it; source code for me)
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All of the roms I have tried have these really annoying bugs. In the ROM I have now, the WIFI keeps dropping, even when i'm in the middle of a download.
If you guys can make a simple, stable ROM without all the bells and whistles (swipe left, themes, etc), that would make me (and a lot of other people) very happy.
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I haven't experienced any of those issues but one thing I can point out is wifi issues are most likely kernel related; I'm most definitely not a kernel dev so anything I do will have something close to hashcodes current kernel (assuming it won't work as is)

Hi Sblood,
Funny, I was just thinking about this today, wondering if anybody that's capable is willing to take the time to do this. While I'm pretty much satisified with my JB rom, I really like ICS and I was very happy with twa_priv's CM9 builds.
I watch a lot of video from CNN and that's flash, the JB roms are finally giving me pretty good performance with this but I also like to watch video from ESPN and I haven't figured out a way to get that to work. With ICS, it prompts you to choose a player to watch the videos, like MX Player or Dice Player, with JB, it just tells me that the content is unavailable. That's probably the biggest thing I miss from ICS. I still keep a nandroid of twa's last CM9 release under a different gmail address and update any apps from Play Store every couple of weeks and then I OD on ESPN vids & Flash stuff, tonight I had 17 apps to update. LOL
For me, it's a tradeoff of JB Google Now for ICS ESPN vids and I'd rather have ESPN videos. So, if you could use twa's CM9 build as a base and hook in Hashcode's newer kernels, say on a monthly basis, that would be awesome & most appreciated.
Thanks,
Mike T

So no new ICS ROM?
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Joey11746 said:
So no new ICS ROM?
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Sorry I've been busy and interest actually seemed much lower than I would have expected so it's been a somewhat lower priority.
I would still love to get it done (if for no other reason than we don't really have a stable/buildable version of ICS) but as it stands I've been having a few issues getting the ICS device repo updated to use the current kernel but I have been trying at least some.
I have to remind you it's the holiday season as well.

A good, stable, release candidate ICS ROM? I can see the appeal. I'd definitely give it a whirl. I'm starting to get tired of instability on a lot of ROMs.

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I'm starting to get tired of instability on a lot of ROMs.
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Well I suggest you put in the work to correct them

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Well I suggest you put in the work to correct them
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You mean report bugs and stuff? Well, they wouldn't exactly be called bugs, more instability. For example, the android browser self closing itself every now and then.

Sblood86 said:
Sorry I've been busy and interest actually seemed much lower than I would have expected so it's been a somewhat lower priority.
I would still love to get it done (if for no other reason than we don't really have a stable/buildable version of ICS) but as it stands I've been having a few issues getting the ICS device repo updated to use the current kernel but I have been trying at least some.
I have to remind you it's the holiday season as well.
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True, still try

Any luck blood?

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That's a joke right; it's been 5 days since you asked this previously, it's still the holiday season and I haven't said anything in regards to something working so it must be I'm just not sure I get the humor in it...
Admittedly I probably shouldn't have created this thread til I had made some more progress but the goal was to find out if people were even interested in ICS in the first place. As I have stated this is still on my project list but let's be serious for a moment; how high of a priority do you really think back tracking to a previous version is? (I'll give you a clue: it's not).
I can tell you this; syncing cm9 and the old Kfire-Android local manifest for it doesn't build (and that's with the old kernel branch), it's not as simple as sync a bunch of folders and compile; I have to actually dig into the code of several repos to sort this out.
Lastly consider that my primary role is as a recovery dev; you know the term 'the plate is full', well I have a platter over here...
Not directly related but on the subject of recovery development; this is where most of my time has gone as of late.

I'd like to see an updated ICS but if it doesn't happen......oh well......I'll wait
.....when you hit the walls of sanity, you have no-where to go.....

Yea I'll wait too. And it was a joke. :c

How about a ROM with similar battery life as the stock Amazon one? Every custom ICS or JB ROM I have tried has not been awesome for battery life. Especially in sleep mode.

I'd like to see a honeycomb ROM that wold be pretty neat